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among Perfons eminent for their Learning and Judg- 
ment, yet ventured to aider t, that the Tooth, which was 
kept and (hewn at Antwerp , as the Tooth of that un- 
merciful Giant, whole Defeat, brought about as they 
pretended, by Brabo a Son of Julius C iefar, and King 
of the Arcadians , was fabuloufly reputed to have 
given Occalion to the building of that Caftle and City, 
was nothing but the Grinder of an Elephant. How- 
ever difplealing this Aifertion might be, as Goropius 
farther adds, to thofe who are delighted with fuch 
idle and ridiculous Stories, yet to the Judicious it will 
appear the lefs furprizing, on Account of what padded 
not long before he wrote this Book, when the almoft 
entire Skeletons of two Elephants, with the Grinders, 
and likewife the dentes exert i, or Tusks, were found 
near Wielworda , Vilvwdeni as they were digging a 
Canal from Brnjfels to the River Rupel , to defend that 
Town and Country from the Incurlions of thofe of Me - 
chlen. Goropius conjectures, that thefe Elephants had 
been brought thither by (he Romans, at the. Time either 
of the Emperor Galien , or Tof humus . 
A very large Skeleton, likewife of a Giant, as pre- 
tended, was dug up near Tunis in Africa about the 
Year 1630, whereof one Thomas d' Ar cos, who was 
then at that Place, fent an Account, together with one 
of the Teeth, to the learned Teiresk. The Skull was 
lb large, that it contained eight Meilleroles (a Mea- 
fure of Wine in Trovence ) or one Modius, as Gajfen - 
dus calls it *, or a Pint and a Half Tar is Meafure. 
Sometime after a live Elephant having been Ihewn at 
T onion , Teiresk ordered, that he fhould be brought to 
his Country Seat, on Purpofe to take that Opportunity 
* Gaffendus in vita Peitesk. Lib. iv. Anno 1632. 
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